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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 2428523" data-attributes="member: 13737">Morgentaller DistrictLynn JenkinsWhen the officer brings her bloodied hand out, she is not holding a weapon persay, but a subdermal injector.  "Yes, and so," she says, starting to gasp from the sudden drop in oxygen, "is this."She lunges at you with it, despite her substantial hand injury.  Having planned for such an eventuality, you lash out to disarm her.Disarm is an opposed attack roll.  Majors gets 23 versus Lynn's 12.She jerks her hand back and you grab nothing but air.  The woman tries to inject you with something, but the head of the subdermal injector snags on your shirt, leaving you unharmed.  Your lucky dodge is accompanied by a loud woosh as all the air is sucked from the area.  The sudden change in pressure threatens to pull the air from your lungs!Fortitude saves are needed for you and Majors, at DC 17.  Both Majors and Lynn end up with 14's.  They are now suffocating.  Both must make secondary constitution checks at DC 10, increasing by +1 per round.  Majors gets a 9 and fails, Lynn gets a 16.X12 is caught in the area of the effect and is now dying.Majors collapses to her knees then to her side, the subdermal injector falling from her grasp and ending up at your feet.  The telepath turns sightless eyes towards you, and a visible bolt streaks from his forehead towards her.  It passes with a hum right by your left ear.  As you glance along the path of the bolt, you see the albino womans hair dancing in currents of air.  In a 30 foot radius about her, however, everything is deathly still.  The mental bolt strikes the woman in the forehead, and she throws her head back in apparent pain.  The stillness expands exponentially.In the street, you see a man on a motorcycle suddenly crash to his side.  A pair of shoppers exit a store and collapse.  There is a crash as a car doesn't stop at a red light and smashes into a city bus in which you can see passengers slumped over, and the driver fallen over the wheel.  Several birds fall from the sky.Behind you, you hear the telepath gasp for breath as your own chest tightens and you feel unconsciousness looming.</blockquote>

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